STAT3 and fatty liver disease: Later, Beisner and the colleagues [44] have contributed to the valuable insights that BA alleviates hepatic steatosis in Western-style diet-fed C57BL/6 mice, which is attributable to the induction of Paneth cell α-defensins and matrix metalloproteinase-7 via histone deacetylation and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3.